[Electronics-talk] ooooo yikes!/Could this pill replace passwords? | One Page | Komando.com

Tue Apr 21 03:36:21 UTC 2015

Hi all! 
It's also not the interfaith mailing list. 
Kendra 

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> On Apr 20, 2015, at 8:18 PM, David Thomas via Electronics-talk <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I find Komando's stuff a bit sensational, and I feel she uses a lot of scare
> tactics to drive fear throughout the population. Personally I think it would
> be really cool to be connected to computers and have chips in my body, but
> that is just me. Please don't include information about the bible in this
> discussion because the book was written way before computing was conceived
> by man kind.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of River Linda via Electronics-talk
> Sent: Tuesday, 21 April 2015 7:54 AM
> To: Star Gazer; Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] ooooo yikes!/Could this pill replace
> passwords? | One Page | Komando.com
> 
> Okay, as long as it tastes like chocolate, bacon, or chocolate-covered
> bacon.
> 
> On Monday, April 20, 2015, Star Gazer via Electronics-talk <
> electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
>>        I hope you don't ever need a pacemaker.
>> This is only scary because it's new.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org
>> <javascript:;>] On Behalf Of Drew Hunthausen via Electronics-talk
>> Sent: Monday, April 20, 2015 7:26 PM
>> To: 'Lauren Merryfield'; 'Discussion of accessible electronics and
>> appliances'
>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] ooooo yikes!/Could this pill replace
>> passwords? | One Page | Komando.com
>> 
>> Very interesting! I don't think I'd want to ingest something foreign
>> into my body that has electrical impulses, and I think there would
>> most likely be a lot of others who might feel the same way no matter
>> how safe they prove it to be.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org
>> <javascript:;>] On Behalf Of Lauren Merryfield via Electronics-talk
>> Sent: Monday, April 20, 2015 4:21 PM
>> To: sandrarose at mycelery.com <javascript:;>
>> Subject: [Electronics-talk] ooooo yikes!/Could this pill replace
>> passwords? | One Page | Komando.com
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I read this in kim komando’s newsletter;
>> 
>> Could this pill replace passwords? | One Page | Komando.com
>> 
>> April 20, 2015
>> 
>> PHOTO COURTESY OF SHUTTERSTOCK
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> If you think Apple's fingerprint scanners are futuristic, wait until
>> you read about the security measures one PayPal executive is excited
>> about. He thinks
>> 
>> businesses will start using injectable chips and pills you can swallow
>> to secure all of your accounts.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> These devices include brain implants and attachable computers, which
>> “put users in charge of their own security,” [global head of developer
>> evangelism
>> 
>> Jonathan Leblanc] said. Ingestible devices could be powered by stomach
>> acid, which will run their batteries, he added.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> These new gadgets would turn unique markers in your body like vein
>> features or your heart's electrical activity into passwords. They
>> could transmit that
>> 
>> encrypted data using wireless antennas to unlock your accounts. This
>> makes them more accurate and secure than fingerprint scanners,
>> 
>> because even those can be hacked.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I know this technology sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie,
>> but it's real. There's no timetable for when PayPal or other
>> businesses could introduce
>> 
>> this technology, but there are people out there working on it right now.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Mr. Leblanc said PayPal was working with partners who are building
>> vein recognition technologies as well as heartbeat recognition bands.
>> PayPal is also
>> 
>> working with developers, mostly through 24-hour hackathons, who are
>> building prototypes of futuristic ID verification techniques, he said.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> In the age of the hacker, it's more important than ever to develop
>> secure methods to keep our accounts and personal information safe.
>> But, I'm not sure
>> 
>> how comfortable I would feel swallowing a password pill or injecting a
>> chip into my skin. It sounds really invasive to me. What do you think
>> about this
>> 
>> new technology?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Source:
>> 
>> Wall Street Journal
>> 
>> list of 2 items
>> 
>> New Technology
>> 
>> Privacy
>> 
>> list end
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> thanks
>> 
>> lauren
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Blessings in Jesus’ name.
>> 
>> God’s grace:“Plunge a sponge into Lake Erie. Did you absorb every drop?
>> Take a deep breath. Did you suck the oxygenout of the atmosphere?
>> Pluck a pine needle from a
>> 
>> tree in Yosemite. Did you deplete the forest of foliage? Watch an
>> ocean wave crash against the beach. Will there never be another one?”
>> –Max Lucado
>> 
>> my digital evangelism blog:w w w . ask in jesus name . o r g
>> 
>> my latest book is at:
>> 
>> w w w . a u d I b l e . c o m
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>> Cats Are Terrifically Superb:
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